Improvement in peppermint-droppers



H. H. SNOW.

Peppermint Dropper.

Patented March 4, 1851.

'Invenio'r;

IINITED STATES PATENT Urricn.

IMPROVEMENT IN P EPPERMINT-DR OPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 7,963. dated March 4, 1851.

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY H. Snow, of the town and county of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Machine for Making Peppermint and other Drops; and I do hereby declare that the foling stationary, or to both the dropper and' the dropping-sheet at one and the same time.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct a sugar-kettle, Figure 2, A, of copper or any other suitable material, of any desired size and shape, (though a square form is preferable,) with a row of any desired number of nozzles, a a a, substantially as represented in Fig. 2. Directly in front of the nozzles I place a revolving cutter, which may be constructed as represented in Fig. 3, by extending one, two, or more wires, 10 20, between two circular disks, (2 d, of wood, metal, or other suitable material, the exterior surface of each disk having a pivot, p, in its center, which rest in the bearings Z) I), Fig. 2. A convenient way of constructing these bearings is represented in Fig. 2, their length and position being such that when the cutter wheel is revolving the wires or cutters will just graze the tips of the nozzles of the kettle, as seen in Fig. l. A handle for turning the cutter-wheel may be attached in any convenient way. The position of the cutter-wheel when attached to the sugar-kettle is seen in Fig. 1. The dropper constructed substantially in the manner thus described may be held, if not too large, in the hand over the dropping-sheet, as is the practice with the common peppermintdipper, and by revolving the cutter-wheel the drops may be thus made with great rapidity and uniformity, as many drops being made at each stroke of the cutter as there are nozzles; but when'the drops are to be made upon any considerable scale, this method of using the drop per will be found too tedious, and not sufficiently expeditious. To facilitate, therefore, still further the manufacture of the drops, I combine my dropper the dropping-sheet being stationary, or with a movable dropping-sheet, the dropper itself being stationary, or with a railway and a movable sheet combined.

A convenient way ofcombining a dropper with a railway is represented in Fig. 1. A railway, 1", may be attached to the ceiling of a room, from and moving over which may be suspended acarriage-frame, f. InFig. l is also shown a convenient way of attaching the dropper to this frame, which admits of the dropper being freely moved and of being readily hung and unhung. The dropper may be propelled over the railway by hand, (for which purpose a handle, 0, is secured in the the back,) or by any other motive power, as may be desired. In the second case mentioned I suspend the dropper in a permanent position, while the dropping-sheet is made to move beneath the dropper by hand or any other motive power applied in any usual way. If desired, a rotatory motion may be given to the dropping-sheet, the drops, by means of a scraper, being made to fall into a receiver placed beneath for that purpose, the dropping-sheet in this case being an endless one. In the third case mentioned it will be only necessary to combine the motion of the drop per over the railway with the motion of the dropping-sheet, as they are described in the two former cases. By either of these arrange ments peppermint-drops may be manufactured with great rapidity, ease, and accuracy, andmuch cheaper than by the-common process. Winter-green and all other kinds drops made from sugar may also be made by this dropper, and it is intended for their man ufacture as well as that of peppermint-drops.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The construction of a peppermint-dropeither with a railway,

per by combining a sugar-kettle, Fig. 2, A, combined, all substantially as herein de- With a revolving cutter, Fig. 3. scribed.

2. The combination of such dropper, either November 80, 1850. with a railway, Fig. 1, the dropping-sheet HENRY H. SNOW. being stationary, or with a movable dropping- In presence ofsheet, the dropper itself being stationary, or AARON BELDEN, with a railway and a movable dropping-sheet WM. H. ELLIOT, Jr. 

